CAIRO — Al Jazeera's Australian journalist Peter Greste, speaking a day after his release from prison in Egypt, says his freedom was something of a "rebirth" and that key to his well-being while incarcerated for more than a year was exercising, studying and meditating.

CAIRO -- Al-Jazeera English reporter Peter Greste left Egypt on Sunday after the president approved his deportation, but there's no word on jailed colleagues Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed.

CAIRO -- Rights group Amnesty International on Sunday accused Egyptian authorities of intimidating witnesses and whitewashing evidence to cover up the role of security forces in the killing of more than two dozen people during protests last week.

CAIRO -- Egypt tightened security in Cairo and other cities Sunday as police moved to break up scattered, small protests marking the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.